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This one day course can be booked in
Bristol only according to our course schedule,
or alternatively you can
book a
trainer to visit you.
Contact us for more details!
Adobe Photoshop CS
Advanced Level
Photoshop is so much more than an
image-editor: its layers, channels, paths and
adjustments, combined with actions and histories,
make it a veritable power tool for all those dealing
with photographic imagery. From enhancements to
special effects, the possibilities are limited only
by your imagination.
Useful to you if:
you need to produce professional-standard enhanced
retouching, repairs, or complex photographic
effects.
Before the course, you should:
be using Photoshop regularly and confidently;
be using layers, paths and channels with ease;
be familiar with shortcuts, filters and the main
palettes and menubar options.
At the end of the day’s course you will:
• have produced a complex layered file, special
typographic effects, and a photo-montage with
cloning;
• be armed with advanced tips on how to improve
workflow;
• be confident using actions, masks, and adjustment
layers;
• be aware of integration issues between this and
other software;
• know some expert-user keyboard shortcuts.
Course contents (may vary slightly):
Fundamentals recap
Title bar window spec.s
Colour wheel, colour channels
Histograms, modes, colour management
CMYK-RGB conversion: issues
System requirements, scratch disks
Palette management
Tools and Palettes
Options, browsing
Vector tools
Paths and selections
Cutouts, considerations, paths to
selections
Multiple path export, channel - path
- export
Selections: modifying, transforming,
colour range, variations
Alpha channel selections and
combinations
Bump maps, masks, calculations
Perspective straightening
Colour conversion
Colour mode conversion, gamut
warnings (view)
Colour sampler; info palette
Adding to swatches
Specials; procedure for 5th colours
Layers
Layer effects, layer modes, layer
styles
Changing order
Masking adjustments
Adjustments
Levels, curves, adjustment layers
Shadow/highlight, histogram
Correcting colour casts; variations
(parameters)
Spot colours, duotone specifics, EPS
and DCS
Info palette, colour sampler
Restorative work
Blur/gaussian blur (web + focal
considerations)
Noise: dust and scratches,
sharpen/unsharp mask
Channel separations
High pass, blending options
Simple effects
Photographic edges, neon type,
photo-montage
Layer modes, styles
Realistic reflections, shadows
Plug-ins, filters
Posterisation, solarisation,
Inverting
Brush effects, history brush
3d, filters, plug-ins
Distortion warps
Resolution
Print requirements vs web
requirements, JPG standards, PNGs etc
Pixel dimensions
Canvas size, crop tool specifics
Workflow
Quick colour selection
Drag-dropping multiple layer, folders
and layers, position on paste
Best formats, optimising for web: 1-4
up, droplets
Actions: recording, saving, setting
up batch process
Saving
Save options, file formats for
inDesign, web etc
Placing in Illustrator
Archiving, printing
Keyboard shortcuts
Project achievements:
Complex layered files
Special typographic effects
Photo-montage
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